The Assassination Of President John F. Kennedy
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One of the turning points in American history was the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on Friday, November 22, 1963. This took place in Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. President Kennedy made this trip to Dallas for his 1964 reelection campaign. Kennedy intended to make a speech to the people of Dallas regarding his reelection, but never received an opportunity to do so. Shortly after the assassination, the new President Lyndon Johnson set up the President’s Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren. They were to investigate the mysteries of the event. In 1964, the Warren Commission released its report, 26 volumes long. They said that the man who was arrested, the day Kennedy was killed, for killing a Dallas police officer, was the lone assassin. This man, of course, is Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald himself was murdered on live television, with millions watching, by a Dallas night club owner, and suspected mobster, Jack Ruby, whose real name was Jack Rubenstein. This happened two days following Kennedy’s assassination. Ruby died of cancer four years later in prison. Starting in 1966, New Orleans District Attorney Jim Garrison started his own investigation of the assassination, which led to a very short-lived trial of an international businessman, Clay Shaw, from New Orleans. Garrison believed him to be part of the conspiracy to kill the President.
Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill President Kennedy. There was another shooter, or shooters, most likely behind the picket fence above the grassy knoll. Therefore, there had to be a conspiracy. This negates the conclusion of the Warren Commission.
The following pages will analyze the most important and obvious pieces of evidence supporting the theory of a shooter, other than Lee Harvey Oswald, killing the President from the front and right of the President’s position. Physical evidence, including medical evidence...